This 18 April 2012 post from the NSA internal newsletter SSO Weekly reveals that AT&T (FAIRVIEW) cooperated with the NSA, under the terms of a FISA court order, to enable the agency to surveil the internet traffic going to and from the United Nations headquarters in New York: see the New York Times article AT&T […]

This presentation from NSA’s Mathematics Research Group, dated 21 August 2008 provides an introduction to the XKeyScore system’s data sources and fingerprinting capabilities: see the SVT article FRA part of top-secret hacker project, 11 December 2013.

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This NSA technical memo from April 2013 describes deployments of agency personnel to the facility codenamed TITANPOINTE: see the Intercept article Titanpointe: The NSA’s Spy Hub in New York, Hidden in Plain View, 16 November 2016.

This 2009 NSA presentation describes some of the plug ins available and the way the tool relates to other NSA methods for searching internet metadata, with XKeyScore having the broadest capability: see the book No Place To Hide, 13 May 2014.

This 23 March 2011 article from the internal NSA newsletter SIDToday describes an analyst’s surprise at discovering that the agency was collecting internal communications from Venezuelan energy company Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA): see the Intercept article Overwhelmed NSA Surprised To Discover Its Own Surveillance “Goldmine” on Venezuela’s Oil Executives, 18 November 2015.

This 1 August 2006 post from the internal NSA newsletter SIDToday describes advances in the agency’s text-to-speech capability: see the Intercept article The Computers are Listening: How the NSA Converts Spoken Words Into Searchable Text, 5 May 2015. sidtoday-future-is-now-final

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This 2006 article from the internal NSA newsletter SIDToday describes Voice in Real Time, or Voice RT, a system that allows the agency to automatically identify not just the speaker in a voice intercept, but also their language, gender, and dialect: see the Intercept article Finding Your Voice, 19 January 2018.

This 27-page NSA document, authored by a consultant from contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, provides a step-by-step guide to using XKeyScore, together with screenshots: see the Intercept article XKEYSCORE: NSA’s Google for the World’s Private Communications, 1 July 2015.

This undated NSA document provides a decision tree for the analysis of email addresses, IP addresses, cookies and phone numbers in XKeyScore and other agency tools: see the Intercept article XKEYSCORE: NSA’s Google for the World’s Private Communications, 1 July 2015.

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This NSA presentation from 15 October 2009 explains how analysts can exploit the products of the agency’s CNE hacking operations within XKeyScore and provides examples with screenshots: see the Intercept article XKEYSCORE: NSA’s Google for the World’s Private Communications, 1 July 2015.

This 2010 NSA presentation describes Project Camberdada, an attempt to subvert popular antivirus software by means of surveilling email traffic: see the Intercept article Popular Security Software Came Under Relentless NSA and GCHQ Attacks, 22 June 2015.

This 26 April 2011 SIDToday post from the NSA/CSS Threat Operations Center (NTOC) Hawaii describes how the NSA has developed its capabilities in collecting “other people’s sigint”, for instance in exploiting Chinese operations against the United Nations: see the Der Spiegel article The Digital Arms Race: NSA Preps America for Future Battle, 17 January 2015. […]

This 13 September 2010 presentation from the NSA’s OTP VPN Exploitation Team explains the work of the division: see the Der Spiegel story Prying Eyes: Inside the NSA’s War on Internet Security, 28 December 2014.

This April 2012 NSA presentation uses an AT&T specific term – Common Backbone or CBB – to refer to the Internet backbone of the corporate partner it codenames FAIRVIEW: see the New York Times article AT&T Helped U.S. Spy on Internet on a Vast Scale, 15 August 2015.

This NSA presentation from July 2009 describes the kinds of information drawn from online forums that can be accessed in XKeyScore: see the Intercept article XKEYSCORE: NSA’s Google for the World’s Private Communications, 1 July 2015.

This undated NSA Special Source Operations presentation describes the agency’s relationship with corporate partner AT&T, codenamed FAIRVIEW: see the New York Times article AT&T Helped U.S. Spy on Internet on a Vast Scale, 15 August 2015.

This 26-page NSA document, originally presented at 2012’s Five Eyes SIGDEV conference, gives a detailed overview of the agency’s information gathering on world mobile phone networks. Some intercepted technical and contact details have been redacted: see the Intercept article Operation Auroragold: How the NSA Hacks Cellphone Networks Worldwide, 4 December 2014.

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This NSA presentation from April 2009 explains how analysts can make use of document metadata available through XKeyScore, together with worked examples and screenshots: see the Intercept article XKEYSCORE: NSA’s Google for the World’s Private Communications, 1 July 2015.

This undated NSA presentation, presented together with speaking notes, provides an introduction to the main cable access programmes facilitated by the agency’s corporate partners and specifies the relevant SIGADs: see the book No Place to Hide, 13 May 2014.

This undated page from NSA’s internal WikiInfo describes VALIANTSURF “the coverterm for the development of Data Network Cipher (DNC) exploitation capabilities in TURMOIL”: see the Der Spiegel story Prying Eyes: Inside the NSA’s War on Internet Security, 28 December 2014.

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